Doctors have been warned about prescribing the Ozempic diabetes drug to treat obesity.

According to reports in the Irish Times, the guidance has been made by the Medical Council, the Department of Health, the HSE, Health Products Regulatory Authority and Pharmaceutical Society of Ireland.

Speaking to Newstalk Breakfast was Prof Francis Finucane, consultant endocrinologist at University Hospital Galway, has more than 3,000 patients at his obesity clinic on Ozempic.